wan
/wɒn/ · adj
Meaning
- Pale, sickly-looking.
- Dim, faint.
- Bland, uninterested.
- The quality of being wan; wanness.
- Pronunciation spelling of one, representing Ireland and Glasgow English.
- A girl or woman.
- simple past of win.
- Acronym of wide area network.
- A surname.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English wan, wanne (“grey, leaden; pale grey, ashen; blue-black (like a bruise); dim, faint; dark, gloomy”), from Old English wann (“dark, dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *wannaz (“dark, swart”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian wann, wonn (“dark”).
- wann(ofs)→
- *wannaz(gem-pro)→
- wann(Old English)→
- wan(Middle English)→
- wan (English)
- Relations: inh, inh, inh, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- wan(Indonesian) (bor)
- wan(Translingual) (der)
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